With the rate at which we see some children of this generation behave, it is time to discuss this topic.
The important role parents play in a child’s sexuality education includes: Providing the family perspective. Supporting your child’s level of comfort in discussing sexuality-related issues. Maintaining an open dialogue with the school about the school-based sexuality education program.
How did you learn about relationships and sex? Was it good, bad, or indifferent? Was it through friends, films and TV, older brothers or sisters, personal experience, or did you get sex education at school? Perhaps it was from your mum or dad?
Many parents – because their own parents struggled to talk to them – can’t approach the subject with their children. “How do I start to talk about this with my child?” is the regular confusion.
Then there’s the fear that talking about sex will encourage a child to experiment with sex too early or before they’re mature enough to deal with it. But for some reason, evidence shows that the opposite is true. No wonder so many parents would rather leave it to schools.
In this article, I would support my opinion biblically, so you understand and see the reasons why parents actually have a role to play in their children’s sex lives.
As the Scripture teaches, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverb 22:6).
Sex education in the family is also an effective way to protect children against sexual abuse and bad influences.
The parent’s silence is an open door to sexual abuse of children. Every child who hasn’t received this education is naïve and vulnerable.
A sexually abused child risks carrying the consequences of this heinous act for the rest of his or her life. Hence, parents must save them at all cost. Talking about sex education is not a cultural matter, it is rather a divine duty.
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